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Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved...
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A unique book in two voices employs traditional teaching techniques (alliteration, rhyme, repetition, short sentences) to invite young children to read along with an adult. Each of the 12 short stories fits on one spread and features a children's theme. Full color.
43) Read to tiger
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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A little boy who wants to read his book keeps being distracted by a tiger who is busy chomping on gum, growling, and practicing karate kicks.
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"Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home--a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards, and seldom calls. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious package from...
45) The lost library
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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"When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The two boys start asking questions whose answers will transform...
47) The library
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.
49) Northanger abbey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 16
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Jane Austen's first novel--published posthumously in 1818--tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature....
50) Words on fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who...
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Tale of magic volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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"Brystal Evergreen is running out of time. It's been almost one year since Brystal made a deal with Death: Find and destroy the Immortal in exchange for her life. But she still hasn't found a single clue about who or where the Immortal is. To make matters worse, something dark and malignant has risen from deep within the earth, threatening life as we know it. If Brystal wishes to stop this new evil and save her life, she'll have to find a way to unite...
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Books of beginning volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers--and a fearsome enemy--and embark on a prophesied quest to find a magical book.
54) The bee tree
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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To teach his granddaughter the value of books, a grandfather leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.
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2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
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Baby Bear books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Throughout the day, Baby Bear finds a book to fit every special moment.
58) I'm not reading!
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Baby Owl reluctantly reads a story to Baby Chick, whose numerous brothers, sisters, cousins, and friends join in and test Baby Owl's patience.